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Tampon tax: Call for abolition timetable as Tesco cuts price
2017-07-28 16:54:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Women should be told now when the VAT on women's sanitary products will be abolished, an MP says.
Mobile phone roaming charge abolition plan rewritten
2016-09-21 14:32:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Proposed time limits on cost-free roaming for travellers with mobile devices have been scrapped under new European Commission plans.
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Abolition of Decc 'major setback for UK's climate change efforts'
2016-07-15 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change has been condemned by former ministers as a major setback to British efforts to combat global warming. Decc was closed in a series of sweeping changes to the government unveiled by the new prime minister, Theresa May, on Thursday. Its functions, which include representing the UK at international climate talks, responsibility for meeting carbon targets and levying subsidies for green energy, have been transferred to a beefed-up business...
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Global Climate Change and Nuclear Abolition: One Urgent Issue
2014-05-26 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: No two trans-national issues are more closely related than the abolition of nuclear weapons and global climate instability, for three reasons: first, nuclear war is the biggest potential accelerant of life-threatening climate change; second, the resources desperately needed to address climate issues continue to be poured into nuclear weapons and their delivery systems; and third, the solution to both challenges depends upon the same new way of thinking based in the reality that national and international...
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EU funds sugar research for ACP states industries as volatility looms post abolition of quotas in 2017
2014-05-12 09:09:35| Sugar Industry News
Nearly US$20 million is available for research on sugar to scientists in the member states of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in a bid to ensure the viability of their sugar industries.